Arf, I got a kernel panic just at the begining, and even with the boot parameters, it’s only register addresses that I get as informations…
SO I dunno if it comes from this or not, it was just at the begining, some stuffs get loaded and then BAM!

I have to say that I’m installing it on an USB drive alse, maybe that’s the point

Hello,
I have been trying to install vanilla SL on my Thinkpad T61. I cannot make the internal keyboard and the trackpad working. I have to use a USB keyboard and USB mouse. I used the VoodoPS2Controller.kext. I tried to use ApplePS2Controller. No success. Have you some ideas?
Kind regards,
Quan

tried installing SL On my amd pc and the install went great roll the end where it stated: installation failed- unable to start startup disk pls assign a disk to start” and go to assign it and it says something is missing. I’m using an amd athlon x2 +4400 that has a plug and play bios. And i have a master DVD drive burner that’s the master and it doesn’t work and a slave DVD-rom drive which I booted the cd from. The slaw is not shown in the bios but the master us. Help me pls. Remember me? Retat123? Yeah need some help ASAP

i have problems with the GUID partitioning process, when i try to create the GUID partition, the progress bar doesn’t fill, i waited about 6 minutes and the process didn’t finish, i tried the other 2 partition schemes and both work just fine,

am i doing something wrong or not doing something? does the disk utility of MacOSX have any kind of restrictions?

I really need to install the MAC OS on my Toshiba laptop Satallite (A200 – 1AX); tried all the kind of OSX86 (iDeneb, iaktus and leo4All) the installed were compeleted successfully in all these but when the computer restart the system will be held.

Now I saw this article; thanks a lot for this easy description; but when I come to start make the instruction; I want to know How to install the MAC OS Snow leopard on Hard disk as written in the second paragraph;while this instruction is to install it ?

Hi my friend,
very thanks for your detailed guide, I think you are a genius !
But, I’ve tryied without success, probably I make something wrong…
Is there a ready made distro of snow like iAKTOS ?
My v7 works immediately and upgrade from mac site to 10.5.8 without problems.
If there is on the net some “for dummy” :), please inform me, I would be very very glad !
Tks a lot !

Helow, i have a problem..
Everything was seccsesfully since the first boot Snow leopard then i tried to boot it…It show me an Apple bott screen9you know that gray picture with apple icon) and after 1min waiting i’ve got a cross near the apple icon ? what does it mean ? can someone helpme ?
A picture like http://i41.tinypic.com/iciurt.jpg :/
HELPP.
Still gues it is a same old shit like….still waiting for root device…

Okay so I installed this on my PC (in an external hard drive) and when I booted it up it worked.

But every few times I reboot the computer, the computer doesn’t start up anymore (the fan spins, but nothing is working, not even the BIOS) and I have to clear my CMOS memory by taking apart the computer and removing the motherboard battery for a few minutes every time to make the PC work again.

I followed the guide, and replaced the mach_kernel, because i’m using an atom, but when i boot up my new hard drive, my computer goes through the bios normally, then says “Loading Darwin/x86″, then goes to a black screen with no hard drive activity, what’s up?

I was able to finish Phase One without any issues.
In Phase Two:Step One, Snow Support Package Shows an Error. Then as per Step Two I replaced the boot file on Snow drive. However, when I perform Step Three, on clicking Run DSDT Patcher button it gives error: Build Failed

System Information:
I have Mac OS 10.5.7 installed on external USB drive using iATKOS method.
My system is Lenovo R60

A friend of mine is converting my PC based Intel board over to MAC. He was able to install the 10.5 version and it worked fine until I updated the OS. He’s now trying to get Snow Leopard 10.6 on the machine. It installed ok but was having problems with the ethernet card not connecting to the internet and we replace the card and its seems to be working but the big problem is not all the USB’as are working. The mouse and keyboard work fine but when plugging in like an ipod or external devise it doesn’t work. He said something about seat belt isn’t working properly but we both have looked and havn’t seen anything to fix the issue…..any ideas of what to do? I’ve replaced the hard drive with a new one so there is no issues with the old MAC os interferring.

Hello,
I tried to install snow leopard in an external usb hard disk plugged in my laptop (Acer Aspire 5633WLMI), and everything was installed with no errors..However, on boot in verdose mode it stops after loading the NTFS driver and the tries to mount the NTFS partition of my laptop hard disk (using 10.5.8 leopard ,the ntfs partition works ok).After booting in safe mode, it boots properly.. Any suggestions? thanks in advance!

Many thanks Vinay !!
I just have running 10.6.2 with this tutorial and with extra help everything is working (only the wireless intel3945abg is not working).
I installed first in a pendrive because i don’t have a second disk. Then i installed on the disk.

I would just like to point out that osx86 island was not the first to get snow to work, I was just the first to post a decent tutorial on it. The people on the osx hu irc (godly people, very awesome crew for putting up with me) – and the people at insanelymac (where I met ridgeline) were the core behind it all. Of course, you cant make mention of an osx86 anything without mentioning netkas, who, while reluctant to help (he’s not to blame, about a million people bombard him with questions every day) is an amazing impact on osx86 in just about every category.

Awesome thread though, keep it up! Hopefully you can provide the support that I currently cannot!

I am trying to do this, but keep failing at the DSDT.aml patching section. Here’s my environment:

I downloaded a VMWare image of Leopard and it runs great. No problems so far. I connect a second harddrive with a USB adaqpter, Leopard sees it right away, I partition it and begin following these steps. Always fail to patch on DSDT. I tried hooking it up directly to the computer and adding it as a second hard drive to the settings for the virtual machine, and still fails at the DSDT.

I installed OSx86 Leopard once before, but that was a while ago… when I had an available DVD to burn to. If anyone has suggestions, or more resources for me to read, please email me comatose.dreams@gmail.com and let me know. Thnaks!!

got stuck phase 2 step five. EFiStudio doesn’t have my video card which is Nvidia GForce 6200 128MB. Do i have to upgrade? Also, Where is this alphanumeric string? There is a HUGE hex string in the lower box. Is this it?

Tried a lot of em, n this is the only one that works! Had a couple of KPs at first, but the weird thing is, the more I booted snow the further the KPs were apart. My biggest problem was the video (old geforce 6200) wasn’t listed in efi studio, solution was nvidia kext, installed with osx tools- btw SL is extremely fast!

Hi…I’ve got problem!
I think, that my pc is great for this apple operating system, but something is wrong!
I turned up my computer and system launched…there was an APPLE picture… and nothing after! It stopped..only white screen with apple…and when i pressed f8 and then type “-v”, it stopped at “AppleDecrypt : Starting…” and DVD drive stopped reading and computer was stopped working…this screen with words and numbers was here for a long time until i restarted my computer.. Please..Can you help me with it?

i have been trying to configure which version should i use to download a MAC OS8x on my Acer Asprie 4920 Laptop and couldn’t be so sure. i tried IATKOS 1.0i R3 with a failure. i read in this forum and i think that version 10.5.4 is the one that fits,
I need a confirmation or a lead if was mistaken to which version i should use.

hi i made the usb and it works the only problem is thean when i go to install sl i cant see and drivers to install it
i also went to the disk utilty but there are any drivers listed only the usb stick
can somebody help me?
thanks!

I followed these instructions on an HP netbook. I first has a working iDeneb 10.5.7 on one partition (GUID-based) and a retail Snow Leopard install on a second partition.
After I copied the kext file as described above to my /SL/Extra/Extensions folder (and associated .mkext), I could boot either install. It was just hanging.

I tried various things (fixing permissions, looking for any other modifications), and eventually booted my install disk and removed the /SL/Extra folder I had created. After that my 10.5.7 started loading again.

I don’t know why putting the extra extensions folder on the 10.6 partition would stop by 10.5.7 install from booting, but I can verify that this is what is happening after doing it again as a test.

(I’m assuming I just don’t have the right extensions for my system, btw)

Hi all! I’m triing to install SL on GA-EP45-UD3LR but after changing disks, enter on Install DVD, i get apple logo with that moving circle at the bottom, it looks like it doest this forever. BIOS is the latest, AHCI enabled, HPET is on 64bit. Do you have any idea please ?

hello everybody!!! I need some help.. i have hackintosh withn 10.5.7 iatkos.. run very well.. I try this guide.. but after install OSInstall.mpkg, I search the folder /Snow/Extra/Extensions but I don’t find it. do I need to create the folder?? or what… plase help

I installed Snow Leopard on a new hard drive (no upgrade of the old system; I tried it once, I had many issues, so I decided to go with a clean install). Everything works so far. Internal SATA-drives are fast and responsive.

BUT: transferring files via USB or FireWire is extremely slow (as I mentioned before, both still very fast in 10.5.8); it takes a looong time, even to copy a small (e.g. 1MB) file.

Does anybody have any suggestion, what to tweak in order to boost the transfer-rate via USB and FireWire?

Salut the X86 community; tks for this wonderful collection of instruments; before even thinking of “snow” i wanted first to install Leo without “snow” but stranded:
After inserting Mac OS X retail loading started as foreseen, but stopped a minute or so after having produced the grey screen with apple vignet, the last line (F8-v) being: -Extension “com.apple.driver.Apple.ACPIPlatform” has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpicomponents; use only one style.
(I made two screenshots). And there it ended; i would appreciate any suggestions to solve this without touching the retail. Tks in advance.
Material:
-Asus Barebone V3-P5G43 90PBBGAA210000AGCUZ board P5QL-EM/V-P5G43/DP_MB; BIOS bootsequence 1.cdrom 2.hd
-Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 2.6GHz BX80571E5200
-Transcend JetRam 4 GB set DDR2-RAM-800MHZ 5-5-5
-HD Apple SATA 160 GB
-LG int Super Multi DVD Rewriter GH22NP20 Host Interface X3T13 ATA/ATAPIS/1321D, INF 8090i Rev 5.3 set to Master
-Iiyama CRT MM904UT Vision Master Pro 455 (VGA 19”)

Ok, I need to know, where are you guys getting this stable copy of snow leopard!?!?!?!? I cannot find it and with Demonoid down, it is obviously harder to obtain. I can find the Beta version, but I want the copy you all speak of. I am stuck at 10.5.7 and I would like to get to 10.6 Any links would be great, but one that works. THANK YOU.

Excellent and comprehensive guide to installing Snow Leopard on PC.I have installed using your guide and its working wel except for wireless and audio.Tried many kexts for audio but in vain.The audio on my laptop is alc889 (Laptop is Acer Aspire 8930-6442) and Intel 5100 wireless.Kindly let me know of any working kexts for audio for the device ID mentioned above.
Thanking u in anticipation

Hi there first of all thanks for this guide and your time.. i have downloaded Snow Leopard build 10a432 and i have got an “installation failed” error i saw it when i got back to see if if everything went fine or not.. too bad it didn’t.. i am using a dell inspiron 1525 Kalyway installation v 10.5.8 now.. i am not sure what i am supposed to do now.. another tiny detail that i tried installing this thing on my usb since i am out of space on my laptop HD (32gb usb with GUID partition Settings).. any help on this would be greatly appreciated!

oh yeah also in customize i have discarded language packs.. and still the same result.

Vinay, thanks for answering but I’m sure that’s so?
because I have leopard 10.5.8 retail and going very well.
Nose snow what happens to be me on the block and I
restarts’m doing something wrong and it’s nose, but if
you say that you’ll have no reason thanks

This is the same KP that I had… I had no time to work on this SL installation over the weekend because I still need my Leopard to work on something…. managed to land one snowOSX universal v3.5… will try to see it works… if not, will go back to the basic guide again…

Thanks for the guide and info. As I have an AMD board I used the other guide but it mostly the same and no-one is commenting there.
Install went fine and all started up ok. Had to make a custom efi-string hex thingy using this guide http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,104.0.html for the 7300le I have.
My Wacom tablet keep reverting to default prefs with each reboot – no big deal.
I have to start each boot with the -v to get the desktop up otherwise I just get a blue screen. Only thing strange in the bootup osd is that the FakeSMC isn’t loading??
Still working on the Sound

Got SL installed but it was hanging on AppleRTL8169E.
So i disabled onboard LAN and now it hangs on “ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::start – waitForService(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement)” .
I do have a pci ethernet card as well, will i need to take this out as well to et around these errors ??

I did my Snow installation through a 10.5 Leopard with Efi.
I used Chameleon v2 and had to manually replace the “boot” file.

Now, normal booting isn’t possible, than the wheel under the Apple logo keeps spinning. So i tried booting with “ignore caches” and it worked. After the welcome screens I could play a bit with the finder but I got 2 kernel panics when i was surfing the internet and installing Natit (tried to install that ’cause my graphs were crapy).
Another problem is that i can’t see any HD’s on my desktop.

I have installed all successful and the first boot went pretty far comparing to all following boots- anyways, the result is a panic. The first boot it finished loading kexts and normal system startup begun, than panic, and it said there were some problems with appleio… I cant recall the name exactly. All other booting stops much earlier, while screen runs fast, this must be a cpu panic.

I can’t even boot any further no matter what mode i try. -x32 or single user mode boot results in an early panic.

Thanks. I will try this weekend because I found other issues with my vanilla Leopard setup. I have one IDE harddrive, one SATA DVD drive, three SATA harddrives. I have chameleon installed somewhere but I thought was all drives because when installation, I installed Chameleon as bootloader. However, I tried to disable my IDE harddrive where iATKOS_v7 was installed, all my SATA harddrives (one with xXx_distro (vanilla), one with Windows Vista), can’t be booted. Seemed like the bootloader is in the IDE HDD only. I have the third SATA hdd for snow leopard, thus, hope to install SL in this.

What I’m going to do:
(1) disable (unplug) all drives and leave the third Sata HDD and DVD drives.
(2) Partitioned the Sata hdd into 3 partitions.
(3) installed iATKOS_v7 into the 2nd partitions. Tried to boot into Leopard.
(4) from Leopard, install SL into the first partition.

i installed snow leopard successfully using the above guide but 32bit is missing in my installation. i wanted 32bit coz my d-link wifi uses 32bit drivers and i can only use them if i boot into 32bit mode. i tried all the flags to boot into 32bit mode but chameleon seems to be skipping it and always booting in 64bit mode.

please help me out i dont have internet in my laptop(with snow leopard).

@ Josh Nope the Retail Disk doesn’t made any effect so don’t worry about that. The main difference is made by the kext selection so be careful and do a little research on forums about your board. About chameleon 1.0 you can create an Extension folder in Extra or you can also install to System/Library/Extension

@ Jerky33 Chameleon 2.0 can’t boot Snow leopard itself, so Netkas developed PCEFI 10 that adds the support to SL, the Chameleon v2 Snow Leopard Support.pkg replaces the boot file of chameleon with PCEFI 10. You can do it manually also as described in guide above.

I followed this tutorial to the dot. It booted up into that “Welcome!” video and then proceeded to go into the set up. At the point of registering – like step 4 or 5 – it goes to the “You need to restart your computer” kernel panic. HELP! SO CLOSE!

Hi,
I followed your guide but as the same KP at boot with 99chan. I’m using a Leadtek Winfast PX9400 GT 512mb ram. I don’t see this in the EFI Studio. How to generate the EFI strings for this Nvidia 9400 GT card?

Another thing is that can i due to my IDE harddrive? Once I can figure out how to add in the GF 9400 GT strings, I will change the hard drive to SATA. Thanks.

I read your troubleshooting, and it mentions a kext for IDE drives. I installed snow leopard on the IDE drive. So I wanted to install the kext, I’m not sure where to install, so I guessed that it goes in the extra/extensions folder?

Got SL installed but it was hanging on AppleRTL8169E. Disabled onboard LAN and now it hangs on “ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::start – waitForService(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement)” Does anyone know what this error is about? I’m on a Gigabyte EP45T-DS3R and I’ve seen in other forums that there might be a specific issue with Gigabyte boards.

Important to note for anyone having installation issues:
I could not get past Phase 1. Every time I tried to install, I would get an “Install Failed” error message. I found out that it is NECESSARY to remove the additional languages and printers. Once I removed them, the install completed.

Just thought I would share in case anyone else was having a similar issue.

Been trying these out. Still working on getting everything right. I was wondering about the video package since all I saw in there were nvidia drivers. I’ve got an ati 4850 am I out of luck or will I need to be pointed to a different package? Thanks

“Then Navigate to the root of your “Snow” Drive and delete the “boot” file you see. and replace it with the boot file included System Downloads (you downloaded earlier)”

What boot file are you talkin about in “System Downloads.” I downloaded everything in the links and there is no System Download folder or anything. I am stuck at this step because I need to replace the boot file.

Vinay , you should update your guide. Firstly , include basic troubleshooting and stuff. Secondly , it doesn’t cover in incase of kernel panic. Thirdly , it will not work if you have EFI partition 200MB which is meant for Leopard , as you’ll have to replace it. Anyway nice attempt on a quick tutorial

If you do have the time , do look at my tutorial (a simple guide) .

Those who are getting kernel panic , its related to iOATAFamily.kext , you gotta get a patched kext from netkas anyway

I received an error when I was installing snow leopard. it said it was not able to install all of the files to the HD. I went on anyway, it has started up, but it crashes all the time, and at different points. When I mean crashing, i don’t mean the error message in 50 different languages, this one has errors displayed with random codes on the entire screen.

Would it have something to do with the installing error, i cant seem to get around that error either.

I am getting a kernel Panic after installation when booting into Snow Leopard. I get the following message every time within a couple of seconds of booting into Snow Leopard “You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button until it turns off, then press the power button again”. Any help is much appreciated

@ ChainLightning: That’s the “root device” error, it basically means you don’t have the right hard disk controller kexts. You gotta find out what your controller is and find the right extensions for it.

that’s whats called a Kernel Panic or the mac equivalent of a BSOD.
If you followed this guide and installed OSX using chameleon 2 then at boot before the timer runs out before launching OSX press the down or up arrows and it will let you select various options. One of them is -v (Verbose). Choose it and then post what error you’re getting because that will give us a clear idea of where the OS is panicking.

Hi,
I´ve installed all to my HDD but when the boot screen with the Apple Logo shows up the wheel keeps spinning. A forbidden sign shows up after 5-6 minutes of waiting and nothing else happens. Any ideas whats wrong?

Looks great! Thanks for taking the time to collect and condense some of the better guides out there. When I installed Snow the other day, I found that I had to modify the com.apple.boot.plist in the System directory (not the Extra version), but I’ll have to try this to see if it still works. Thanks again!